Simply looking for ways to pitch in at times, Van Gundy occasionally noticed one of the team’s secretaries, a single mother, was forced to bring her five-year-old son to the office when she couldn’t get a babysitter. Knowing she was swamped and unable to entertain the boy, Van Gundy would whisk the child away to do puzzles or play cards. “He was incredibly sweet to do that,” the woman says years later.
